Dan Taylor

Spinoza and the Politics of Freedom (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining careful historical and textual analysis with comparisons across past and present political theory, this book re-establishes Spinoza as a collectivist philosopher.Taking as its starting point the formative role of fear in Spinoza's thought, Dan Taylor argues that Spinoza's vision of human freedom and power is realised socially and collectively. He offers a new critical study of the collectivist Spinoza, where we can become freer through desire, friendship, the imagination and transforming the social institutions that structure a given community. A freedom for one and all, attuned to the vicissitudes of human life and the capabilities of each one of us to live up to the demands and constraints of our limited autonomy. This book develops and enriches the continental tradition of Spinozism, drawing on a range of untranslated materials and bringing a fresh perspective to key debates. It repositions Spinoza as the central thinker of desire and freedom and demonstrates how the conflicts within his work inform contemporary theoretical discussions around democracy, the multitude, populism and power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474478410
• Artikelnr.: 72418194

Autorenporträt

Dan Taylor is a Lecturer in Social and Political Thought at the Open University. He is the author of Island Story: Journeying Through Unfamiliar Britain (Repeater Books, 2016), shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017 and Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era (Zero Books, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction. Masaniello's Moment
1. Servitude Prejudices of Nature Defining Servitude Political Slavery
Takeover
2. Nature Natural Right Laws of Nature One with Nature The Black Jew
Part 2. Desiring Freedom
3. Power Potentia/Potestas Freedom Conatus Many Into One Infinite Space
4. Desire Consciousness Akrasia Educating Joy Walking the Path
Part 3. Commonality
5. Becoming Collective The Broken Middle Collectivity The Unanimity
Outline From Vulgus to Populus Interdependence (or, on Sartre misreading
Spinoza)
6. We Imagine Philosophy and Theology True Prophets Jesus Christ,
Prophet-Philosopher A Collectivity to Come
7. The State Freedom is the State The Free Multitude Popular Government
Becoming Civil The Living State
Cadenza. Prudentissimo Viro
8. Revolution Is it Reasonable to Rebel? Indignation Emulation Populism for
Spinozists
Conclusion. For One and All
Acknowledgements
Bibliography